School: Glaise an Choinnlín (B.), Áth Treasna (roll number 12320)
- Location:
- Clashykinleen West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: E. Ó Ríordáin
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- (continued from previous page)Donohue what was wrong and the servant remarked that another man called also. The priest replied "never mind him." The priest and O'Donohue proceeded to O'Sullivan's but the man was dead before them, and the belief is that some friend of the sick man called at the priest's house to hurry him. South of Barnacurra and across the Ocaol river is:
- Lisrobin Townland.
In this townland there are two forts, one exceptionally large. One day near the large fort in Shine's land an ex-R.I.C. man was minding cows and a shee-geehe came along towards the fort up a narrow glen from the river. He said he heard a jumble of voices, laughing and talking intermingled with groans and shouts, he took a fist of grass and threw it with the fairy wind as is customary saying "carry this instead of me." When he returned to the house an hour later the old man was dead.
On the night of the Dromcollogher conflagration where up to 40 people lost their lives in the cinema, a man named John Sullivan was returning to his home in Lisrobin at(continues on next page)
